Three reasons Facebook Graph Search is good for business

Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a plan this week to make all of the Likes, check-ins, and photo tags on Facebook actually mean something with the launch of Graph Search. The service is in early beta, and is not yet widely available, but the concept has some valuable implications for businesses on Facebook. Here are three ways that small and medium businesses can benefit from Facebook Graph Search: 1. Engagement Facebook is...

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Facebook's $1 message test opens inboxes to strangers

For a small number of Facebook users, a buck is now all it takes to get a message into someone's inbox, even if the recipient isn't a friend. The experiment seems enabled in part by Facebook's new policies, which remove the capability to block messages from people you aren't friends with. Under this policy, the main Inbox is reserved for messages from friends, or for other messages that Facebook's algorithms deem important....

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Facebook launches Poke app, reinventing feature

Facebook has reinvented its Poke feature with a new standalone iOS app that lets you send messages, photos and videos to your friends on the social networking service that disappear within 10 seconds of someone opening them. While it might have been a while since any of your friends on Facebook have used the feature, now you can check out the app released Friday. Supposedly coded with help from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Poke joins...

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Use Facebook's new Social Jobs app to find work

Looking for a job? Now you can leverage one of the sites that you use the most, Facebook, to help in your hunt. Facebook on Wednesday rolled out its long-awaited Social Jobs app for U.S. users, which has aggregated more than 1.7 million job listings from job search sites that were already using Facebook to reach recruits, including Jobvite, BranchOut, Work4Labs, and Monster.com. The social network first announced...

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